The 30 greatest album covers, ranked

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Over the decades, artist and musicians have worked together to create albums where the cover art is as memorable as the music itself

Photographer Colin Lane met the Strokes in early 2001, after being commissioned to shoot them for The Face magazine. The album cover happened by chance – after hanging out on another shoot a few weeks later, Lane heard the band’s art director hassling them to choose an album cover. He’d brought his portfolio with him, which included the now-infamous “ass shot”. The photograph, Lane later revealed in interviews, was taken in either late 1999 or 2000.

 

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You forgot the one with Stanley Gibbons printed on it.

von_Domatin

This one!

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The Rio album cover is iconic

How can this not be among the top 30?

Missed this one!

Patti Smith Horses? Wtf how?

The best American and Brit album covers totally ignoring all other genres of music including ethnic ones. Way to go with your lack of variety and only honoring mostly white artists. So many great covers of country, blues, jazz, bluegrass, Punjabi, K-pop, etc.

The Original 'Now' should be there!

List isn't complete without this:

Don't bother clicking

Don't even click on this ^^^.

If Abbey road isn't at number one I ain't playing this game, lol :)

You left this out

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The Queen is Dead should be on list.

Surely this should have been on the list? Simple but effective.

unknown pleasers has BEST album cover.

Come on 🙄🙄. Dark side of the moon. Pink Floyd. Leftism. Leftfield should be on the list.

Got that WRONG . . many missing including these two .

This cover s more iconic than at least one-third of the albums in your list.

Christeen_town And this... omd epic

Christeen_town iconic specials

Lists are always subjective but 'King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King' could be in there too.

Where is Dark Side Of The Moon?

What about Travelogue by the Human League or Sheikh Yerbouti by Frank Zappa?

Turbo powered box-ticking between baby boomer 'classic rock' with a nod towards mostly MTV black music.

According to who?

You missed one

How predictable. Abbey Road, 💤

where is pink floyd?

What's the criteria? Album sales? Cultural impact? Marketability? These lists are silly.

YYYs

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'Sticky Fingers' number 1 😋

Why ?

I have at least 9 of them.

JosephMcSweeney they’ve missed out The Stone Roses and Jimi Hendrix Axis Bold as Love - anything else?

How is Abbey Road or Nevermind NOT 1 😂😂

Where’s The Rio album Cover by Duran Duran?

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DannyDutch

True Blue was a beauty, I had a poster of it as a young teen too.

fiftyminus2 Do you have a favourite?

By centrist remoaner dads, just what a need. Another clickbait list of utter mediocrity and white, western centric music. /yawn

This is very subjective but one of these was on my wall above my bed at univeristy

Hahahaha says who?

The Patti Smith Album shocked me to the core when it came out! I played it and played it and remember staring at her! I had never seen anyone look like that!

Hindenburg

I loved album covers, and not just because they were a handy way to remove seeds from my weed. And boy, were there a lot of seeds in the 70's. My four fingered ounce always lost a good 2 1/2 fingers of sticks, stems and seeds

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